Christopher Hitchens Quotes

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Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

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A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.

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The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the war against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

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A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

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Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.

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Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

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I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

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Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.

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I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

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God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.

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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

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The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

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This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?

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If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

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The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.

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